Friday humor: a tribute to the heart

The group Hard 'N Phirm has video on YouTube for their song "El Corazón," a dramatic (and accurate) musical tribute to the heart and its functions, in Spanish with English subtitles (via BoingBoing).

(other songs, including a song about pi, are on the group's official site)

Friday chuckle: Venn diagram humor

Today BoingBoing linked to a collection of Venn and other relational diagrams drawn on index cards -- they're posted on a blog called Indexed by Jessica Hagy.

Two of my favorites, probably because they strike close to home... "Those silly 1980s" which plots the growth of the hole in the ozone layer against the desired height of bangs, and "As the tenth bullet states" which plots the number of PowerPoint slides against the number of sleeping audience members.

Funny fake news story

From the Onion's Radio News with Doyle Redland: Selfish scientists won't share findings (audio file)
Excerpt: "A group of scientists at the Harvard University Medical School announced today that they have made stunning advancements in heart disease prevention but added that they are keeping it all for themselves. Responding to intense public outcry, head researcher Dr. Carl Trotter says people in the medical community should have been a lot nicer to the scientists before they made the important discoveries."